C# NET How to remove ANSI Control Characters fast and reduce to ANSI set

Here's how to reduce a string to ANSI and remove control characters from a string fast in C-Sharp. But be careful since, remove é is not replaces with e. Todo that you need normalize the string, see UnicodetoAscii function. 

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character set that contains characters from 0 to 127.

The generic term ANSI (American National Standards Institute) is used for 8-bit character sets. These character sets contain the unchanged ASCII character set. In addition, they contain further characters from 128 to 255.

Here's a list of control characters. https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/general-punctuation/

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using System; using System.Text; using System.Linq; using System.Diagnostics; public static class Program { // Based on http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13503/Stripping-Accents-from-Latin-Characters-A-Foray-in // Proper Normalization public static string UnicodeToANSI(this string inString) { var newStringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); newStringBuilder.Append(inString.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormKD) .Where(x => (x > 30 && x <= 255)) .ToArray()); return newStringBuilder.ToString(); } //ANSI characters 32 to 127 correspond to those in the 7-bit ASCII character set, public static string ReducetoASCII(this string s) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s.Length); foreach (char c in s) { if ((int)c > 255) // remove chars > 127 continue; if ((int)c < 32) // remove control characters continue; sb.Append(c); } return sb.ToString(); } public static void Main() { Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch(); string french = "A Paris, le cortège parisien s’était élancé à 14 heures.\r\n\tFace à l’affluence, un «itinéraire bis» a été mis en place. D’importants rassemblements ont lieu à Bordeaux, Marseille, Rennes ou Lyon. Suivez la journée avec nos journalistes dans toute la France."; string ftemp = string.Empty; string german = "ޘ Trump\t\r\nverwechselt Klägerin Carroll auf Foto mit Ex-Frau – das könnte Folgen haben"; string gtemp = string.Empty; Console.WriteLine(french); sw.Start(); ftemp = french.ReducetoASCII(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Ansi reduced\r\n" + ftemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); ftemp = french.UnicodeToANSI(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Proper Normalization\r\n" + ftemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine(german); sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); gtemp = german.ReducetoASCII(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Ansi reduced\r\n" + gtemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); gtemp = german.UnicodeToANSI(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Proper Normalization\r\n" + gtemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); } }

Tangerine phishing email with subject Update your settings to secure your account

For the record, this is a Tangerine phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject Update your settings to secure your account

What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page. 

From : Tangerine xxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmx.de> Subject :  Update your settings to secure your account - Support #xxxxxx

PHISHING LINKs;

1. https://ffjheeg.r.af.d.sendibt2.com/tr/cl/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx...

How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the  company's website then forget it.
3. The best way is to 

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source

1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.

Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.

Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing

If you have received this email take it further at 

1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and subsequently government agencies

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx
2. Report Phishing Sites | CISA
3. Home - Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (fightspam.gc.ca)

C# NET How to remove ASCII Control Characters fast and reduce to ASCII set

Here's how to reduce a string to ASCII and remove control characters from a string fast in C-Sharp. But be careful since, remove é is not replaces with e. Todo that you need normalize the string, see UnicodetoAscii function. 

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character set that contains characters from 0 to 127.

The generic term ANSI (American National Standards Institute) is used for 8-bit character sets. These character sets contain the unchanged ASCII character set. In addition, they contain further characters from 128 to 255.

Here's a list of control characters. https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/general-punctuation/

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using System; using System.Text; using System.Linq; using System.Diagnostics; public static class Program { // Based on http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13503/Stripping-Accents-from-Latin-Characters-A-Foray-in // Proper Normalization public static string UnicodeToAscii(this string s) { var sb = new StringBuilder(s.Length); sb.Append(s.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormKD) .Where(x => (x > 30 && x < 128))         .ToArray()); return sb.ToString(); } //ANSI characters 32 to 127 correspond to those in the 7-bit ASCII character set, public static string ReducetoASCII(this string s) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s.Length); foreach (char c in s) { if ((int)c > 127) // remove chars > 127 continue; if ((int)c < 32) // remove control characters continue; sb.Append(c); } return sb.ToString(); } public static void Main() { Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch(); string french = "A Paris, le cortège parisien s’était élancé à 14 heures.\r\n\tFace à l’affluence, un «itinéraire bis» a été mis en place. D’importants rassemblements ont lieu à Bordeaux, Marseille, Rennes ou Lyon. Suivez la journée avec nos journalistes dans toute la France."; string ftemp = string.Empty; string german = "Trump\t\r\nverwechselt Klägerin Carroll auf Foto mit Ex-Frau – das könnte Folgen haben"; string gtemp = string.Empty; Console.WriteLine(french); sw.Start(); ftemp = french.ReducetoASCII(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Ansi reduced\r\n" + ftemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); ftemp = french.UnicodeToAscii(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Proper Normalization\r\n" + ftemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine(german); sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); gtemp = german.ReducetoASCII(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Ansi reduced\r\n" + gtemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); gtemp = german.UnicodeToAscii(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Proper Normalization\r\n" + gtemp + " in " + sw.ElapsedTicks); } }